Feasibility of an online CBT group intervention for parents of children with food allergy

Food allergy (FA) is a source of anxiety which affects the quality of life (QoL) of individuals and their caregivers (1). Furthermore, parental anxiety is a risk factor for anxiety development in children with offspring of anxious parents being seven times more likely to meet the criteria for an anxiety disorder (2). Recommendations have been made to address parental anxiety and its associated restrictive behaviours specifically for children with FA (3). Anxiety in general clinical practice is often addressed using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) of which there is some evidence in mothers of children with FA (1,4)